Cleveland Museum of Art
Might Not the Pupil Know More?, Plate 37
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1799, printed c. 1855
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 104514
From LinkedCulture
A horse in a bonnet holds a pointer over a page filled with the letter A, while a child crouches below to study it. This is plate 37 from Francisco de Goya's Los Caprichos, an etching and aquatint made in Spain in 1799. The scene is pure satire, asking whether the pupil might actually know more than the teacher. Goya used absurd animal imagery to mock an educational system he saw as rigid, hollow, and no smarter than the beasts running it.
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A donkey wearing a hat and holding a stick, standing next to a man who is writing on a piece of paper.
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- Dudley P. Allen Fund
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